status of speakup support for espeak

[John Heim]

----- Original Message ----- > It would be great if somebody who thinks that 
Festival
> is actually worse than eSpeak in quality of speech
> could try to elaborate more about the reasons. We might
> then try to discover if these reasons are real or if
> they are of user preference or if it is even possible
> to fix them with a slight fix in the configuration.
> I think such an effort would be very useful. To discover
> the possible traps as well as to get more light on this
> discussion which, I admit, seems always very strange
> to me. All help appreciated.
>

For me it was entirely about response time. Festival was just too slow. Key 
echo was impossible. Espeak worked really well in that regard.